This list of College of the Holy Cross alumni includes graduates and non-graduate, former students at the College of the Holy Cross. Since its founding in 1843 and its first commencement in 1849, Holy Cross has graduated 171 classes of students. As of the 2019-20 academic year, Holy Cross had approximately 38,511 alumni.[1]
Artists, poets and authors
Vito Acconci 1962, artist and architect
Philip Berrigan 1950, author and activist
Billy Collins 1963, former Poet Laureate of the United States
Leo Cullum 1963, cartoonist best known for his work in The New Yorker[2]
Michael Earls 1895, Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and Holy Cross administrator
Michael Harrington 1947, socialist historian and author of The Other America, which is believed to have inspired Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs
Michael Harvey 1980, author of The Chicago Way and The Fifth Floor; co-creator of the TV program Cold Case Files
Jack Higgins 1976, Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun Times
Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling romance author
Edward P. Jones 1972, MacArthur Award winner and 2004 Pulitzer Prize Award in Fiction for his novel The Known World
William E. McKenna 1947, Former President of Hunts Foods, Former Chairman Norton Simon Inc. Former Chairman and President Technicolor Inc. Former Chairman Sambos Rest.[7]
Charles E.F. Millard 1954, former Chairman of the Board, CEO Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York
William J. Teuber Jr. 1973, Senior Operating Principal of Bridge Growth Partners and Former Vice Chairman of EMC Corporation[10]
John F. Thero 1983, former CEO of Amarin Corporation. After the landmark REDUCE-IT trial, he was named Entrepreneur of the Year for Life Sciences in the United States in 2019 by Ernst & Young.[citation needed]
Maggie Wilderotter 1977, former president and CEO, Frontier Communications and DocuSign; as of 2012 had been named one of the "Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business" by Fortune for four years in a row
President Emeritus of College of the Holy Cross and former President from 1970 to 1994, noted for introducing co-education at the college in 1972; member of Religious Studies faculty
Professor Emeritus at Catholic University Law School in Washington DC; noted as a canon lawyer for his exposition of the Catholic Church's view on abortion
Professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; research interests include ergodic theory, smooth dynamical systems, complex dynamics, and computer generated graphics images related to nonpolynomial dynamics
Thomas F. O'Neil 1937, former Chairman of RKO General Studios, who brought movies to television and experimented with an early coin-operated pay TV system
Bartlett Sher 1981, director of Tony Award-winning Broadway musicals South Pacific and The Light in the Piazza
Associate Justice for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School
Guillermo F. Pérez-Argüello, 1973, Peruvian/Nicaraguan dual national, UN Official and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Brazil (2002–04), nephew on his father's side of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
Gordon Peterson 1960, broadcast journalist and television news anchor; co-anchor for ABC affiliate WJLA-TV and moderator and producer of Inside Washington
Bill Simmons 1992, HBO Sports personality, founder of The Ringer, founder of Grantland and formerly ESPN sports columnist and podcaster (Page 2 and The BS report), founder and co-creator of ESPN hit documentary series 30 for 30
Ed Walsh 1969, WBZ NewsRadio 1030-AM, morning news anchor
pastor of the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda, Maryland and chaplain of The John Carroll Society in Washington, D.C.
Science, technology, and medicine
Arthur L. Beaudet, M.D. 1963, Henry and Emma Meyer Professor; Chair of Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine; known for his pioneering work in gene therapy, particularly the muscular dystrophy gene[citation needed]
Helen W. Boucher, M.D. 1986, Director of Infectious Disease at Tufts Medical Center, Scientific Advisory Board Entasis Therapeutics[citation needed]
Edward Bove, M.D. 1968, Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, recognized for his contributions to the repair of congenital heart defects
Benjamin Covino, M.D., Ph.D. 1951, Regional anesthesia pioneer and first Chairman of the Anesthesiology Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital[citation needed]
Bill Diamond, 1978, president and CEO of SETI Institute Research Organization
Robert Harrington, M.D. 1982,cardiologist and the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University and former president of the American Heart Association.
Thomas W. Hungerford, 1959, mathematician and author of many textbooks including Abstract algebra
Steven Stack, M.D. 1994, Commissioner of the Department for Public Health and Chief Medical Officer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and a former president of the American Medical Association.
Paul Harney 1952, professional golfer and golf course owner; won 11 professional events including six on the PGA Tour; in 2005, enshrined into the PGA of America Hall of Fame
Paul Pearl 1989, men's ice hockey head coach at Holy Cross
James F. "Jimmy" Quinn 1928, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Richard Regan 1976, Athletic Director at Holy Cross; former operations director of NFL International
Kevin Swords 1982, most "capped" player on the Eagles, the U.S. national rugby team; played in the 1987 World Cup Rugby and captained the US team in the 1991 World Cup
Willie Turnesa 1938, known as "Willie the Wedge", one of 13 men who have won both the British Amateur (1947) and U.S. Amateur Championships (1938, 1948)
Ralph Willard 1967, former NBA coach; head coach of the Holy Cross basketball team
Notable Holy Cross faculty
Patricia Bizzell, Ph.D., prolific author and former Chairperson of the English Department
John Esposito, Ph.D., widely published professor of Islamic Studies; former Holy Cross Middle East Studies and Religious Studies Chair
Osvaldo Golijov, Ph.D., Grammy Award-winning composer; assistant professor of music
André K Isaacs, Ph. D., organic chemistry professor; social media celebrity
Claudia Koonz, Ph.D., feminist historian of Nazi Germany
Shirish Korde, Ph.D., composer; Chair of the Music Department; founder of Neuma Records
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